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2016



This year I am venturing into unchartered territory on my journey as an educator. I am team teaching in an open environment with 55 students ranging from year 6 - 8.
I am participating in an eFellowship where I am looking at innovative ways to engage and teach students.
All of this is very new and as such I thought it would be interesting to share my reflections with an authentic audience in the hope that by doing so it will provide me the forum to be honest with myself so that I can improve my practice.
If anybody should come across my blog, please feel free to provide some constructive feedback/feedforward, what ever you prefer to refer to it as.


Week 1:
  • What has gone well -
    • team teaching going very well
    • Share similar philosophies - growing people, understand and value the importance of community, empowering students
    • communicate well, no ego’s and willing to learn off each other and recognise each other's strengths
  • What can go better -
    • team planning and progress recording sheets could be focussed on a little more - we have provided them but I’m not sure how well we are monitoring them. I think if they are to be successful we need to make sure the students understand what they are, what they are for and why we are using them

  • The focus has been on:
    • Community: What is it? What does it look like? How does it function? What does our community look like?
    • All students shared their ideas of what they think community in in a video journal. We will use that and others in the future to track students understanding of community and how it develops over the course of the year.
    • It has been interesting to see what students understanding  of community has been and to realise their understanding of their own community is limited.

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